Definitions | rendaku |
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- (linguistics) In the Japanese language, a phenomenon which governs the voicing of the initial consonant of the non-initial portion of a compound or prefixed word. An example is ��, where the second element "-toki" becomes "-doki".
Etymology: From éæ (rendaku), sequential voicing.
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